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My first visit to the Great Central Railway for their Winter Steam Gala, the theme for the gala was Banbury in the late 1950's so the gala featured mainly GWR locos but also had locos from all of the 'Big Four' railway companies.

The full line up of locos included:

- ex-GWR 3700 Class 4-4-0 no.3717 'City Of Truro'
- ex-GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T no.1450
- ex-GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0 no.3850
- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4953 'Pitchford Hall'
- ex-GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T no.5526
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A.E. Draper'
- ex-SR N15 Class 4-6-0 no.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
- ex-LNER K4 Class 2-6-0 no.61994 'The Great Marquess'

Shots include:

- 4953 moving through Loughborough station then seen from the road bridge backing onto her train to form a double header with 61994
- 4953 & 61994 seen departing Loughborough bound for Leicester
- Seen from the coach window, 4953 passes through Rothley station on wind cutters (I had hoped to get off the train at Leicester to do some filming but due to the train being jam packed, I couldn't get out)
- Back at Loughborough, the wind cutters are seen again as 30777 departs with them for Leicester (Not the best of shots but I thought I'd leave it in)
- 3717 & 61994 are seen arriving at Loughborough
- Now at Quorn, 1450 is seen arriving and then departing on a two coach local
- 45305 leaving Quorn to Loughborough light engine
- 3850 bringing the wind cutters into the station and shunting them into the siding
- 61994 blasts through Quorn on a spectacular run of the evening TPO whilst 3850 backs off the wind cutters into the station

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder

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After filming 34067 'Tangmere' on 'The Welshman' I headed east to Didcot to see BR Class A1 4-6-2 no.60163 'Tornado', recently re-painted into British Railways Brunswick Green and sporting BR's early emblem. She arrived at Didcot on June 9th and will be staying until June 17th although the 11th was the only day she would be in steam. This gave the opportunity to see three of the UK's newest steam locomotives in steam together, these were 60163, Fire Fly and the recently completed GWR Steam Railmotor no.93 which by the way looks and sounds superb.

We start off the video with Tornado trundling along the main demonstration line. We then take a look in and around the shed with Mogul no.5322 & Pannier no.3738 on display outside. We also see no.4079 'Pendennis Castle' which looks to be nearing completion & the frames of County Class no.1014 'County Of Glamorgan'. Moving back outside we see Tornado moving on shed to be displayed to allow us to get a good look at her in her smart new livery. Moving on we see no.93 making a loud departure from Burlescombe Station on the branch line then arriving back whilst at the same time Fire Fly arrives on the Broad Gauge line. Fire Fly is then see departing with no.93 following suit. After having a ride on both broad gauge and Railmotor (which I didn't film) we move to the turntable where Tornado is already half way round, so I couldn't really get a good spot to get her all in. She then gives a whistle and makes her way back to the yard to move onto the demonstration line. The last four shots show her running up and down the line with her two coach train.

Filmed on a Panasonic HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder.

Enjoy.

My first visit to the Great Central Railway for their Winter Steam Gala, the theme for the gala was Banbury in the late 1950's so the gala featured mainly GWR locos but also had locos from all of the 'Big Four' railway companies.

The full line up of locos included:

- ex-GWR 3700 Class 4-4-0 no.3717 'City Of Truro'
- ex-GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T no.1450
- ex-GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0 no.3850
- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4953 'Pitchford Hall'
- ex-GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T no.5526
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A.E. Draper'
- ex-SR N15 Class 4-6-0 no.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
- ex-LNER K4 Class 2-6-0 no.61994 'The Great Marquess'

Shots include:

- 45305 arriving at Quorn.
- 3850 departing Quorn with a train of wind cutters, passing 1450 arriving into Quorn with a two coach local.
- 3717 thundering through Quorn with the 10:33am TPO (I realise it says 10:30 on the video, woops)
- 61994 passing through Quorn with the return wind cutters.
- 45305 departing Quorn for Leicester.
- 30777 arriving at Quorn.
- On-board 30777's train to Loughborough (apologies if it's a bit shaky, I was freezing)
- 30777 backing off her train at Loughborough to take on water, then moving off
- 61994 moving off to the front of the train brought in by 30777 in readiness to double-head with 4953
- A look around Loughborough engine shed
- 45305 taking the TPO stock to Loughborough station ready for departure

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder

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Ex-GWR 4073 Class 4-6-0 no.5029 'Nunney Castle' & Ex-LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no.4492 'Dominion Of New Zealand' (aka 60019 Bittern) hauled the Euston - Taunton - Plymouth and return tour 'The Mayflower' (1Z37 & 1Z47). 4492 hauled the tour to Taunton where 5029 was then attached for the journey to Plymouth then detached again at Taunton on the return journey where 4492 would carry on solo to Euston. For this video I came to Dawlish, a place where I've wanted to film for some time. When I got there the sun was shining down then after being set up for a while the rain came down in force and stayed that way for about half an hour, thankfully about 5 minutes before the train was due the rain stopped, the clouds parted and the sun shone once more. So we see 5029 & 4492 running along the famous sea wall in full sun, 5029 was obviously doing most of the work and putting on a fine show as she whistles away before the tunnel mouth. For the return I went to Langstone Rock where we first see a Class 142 Pacer making its way out of Dawlish Warren station. Afterwards we see 5029 & 4492 emerging from the tunnel mouth at Dawlish, note how they both whistle at the same time through Dawlish Station. Streaming along the sea wall nicely they soon pass us both giving off whistles.

Apologies for the rather shaky panning on the long shots, something I need to work on although it didn't look that bad when I was filming.

Filmed on a Panasonic HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder

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BR Class 52 'Western' D1015 'Western Champion hauled the London Paddington - Penzance - London Paddington tour 1Z52 'The Royal Duchy' with BR Class 47 47760 on the rear up to Exeter St Davids where the tour would then be steam hauled by BR Britannia 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' and exLMS Black 5 44871 to Penzance. D1015 would then haul the tour from Penzance back to London Paddington. Here she is seen departing Swindon right time on the outward run of the tour. Filmed on a Sony-DCR-SR57E Camcorder. Enjoy